Studying the wisdom texts of yoga and learning the many different lineages of teachers is essential to my practice. Yoga’s origin is in India and instead of erasing its rich cultural context I seek to incorporate as much of it as I can into what I teach and how I live. Yoga was a liberation practice long before it was a movement practice. I honor that tradition and keep that lineage moving forward by actively working towards collective freedom.
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I learn and teach yoga on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish people. Very specifically I live near present day lake Washington. The Duwamish people living in villages along the shores of Lake Washington were collectively known as hah-choo-AHBSH, that is, people of HAH-choo meaning 'a large lake'. I acknowledge that I occupy this land not to alleviate my accountability and responsibility to indigenous people but to bring us into deeper relationship with the land, indigenous traditions and what we can learn from them to rebuild the world we live in.
Some authors, teachers & trainings that have influenced & inspired my growth as a teacher
Books.
Bhagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchel and Jack Hawley
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Translation and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda
The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga by Bernie Clarke
Yoga Nidra by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens with Jasmine Syedullah, Phd
More Books.
The Mirror of Yoga by Richard Freeman
Yoga and the Quest for True Self by Stephen Cope
The Complete Human Body by Dr Alice Roberts
Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith, PhD
Hindu Goddesses by David Kinsley
Your Spine Your Yoga by Bernie Clarke
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
The Moon Book by Sarah Faith Gottesediener
and so many more:)
Teachers.
Megan Brannum, Chelsea Brown, Joe Burley, Bernie Clarke, Emily Denton, Veronica Dye, Silver Fawkes, Melissa Gonzales, Patrick Good, Genevieve Hicks, Lauren Holloway, Lizz Johnson, Chasity Jones, Rosie Llewellyn, Liz Ottenbach, Matt Ottenbach, Niv Patel, David Petrusich, Alexis Popich, Douglas Ridings, Rachel Savage, Marena Shear, Sugar Spangler, Kai Trinh, Terilyn Wylder, Alyssa Yackley & Cindy Zou & so many more
Teachers come in many different forms and experiences.
Trainings.
PSOM Summer 2017 RYT 200
PSOM Mentor Summer 2018
PSOM Mentor Fall 2018
PSOM Mentor Fall 2019
DSOM Winter 2019 RYT 100
DSOM Mentor Winter 2020